Carsten was born to Sabine and Daniel Weizer in Germany. After a few years, the Weizer family moved to a small town outside of Cleveland. Growing up, Carsten spent many hours studying the art of video production, and as soon as he could find jobs, started freelancing. In high school, Carsten worked as an audio tech at a theater where he worked close to 50 theatrical productions. After high school, Carsten attended Cleveland State for a year for their film and digital media program. During that time, Carsten continued to freelance as a cinematographer for many film productions. In February 2017, Carsten joined the staff of Gateway as the Media Production Assistant.

Carsten's hobbies include: any sort of video production, slacklining, traveling, and volunteering at Beulah Beach, the summer camp he worked at for the past two summers. He worked there on the media team and then as the Assistant Media Director.